Chris Ramsey has made a surprise return to Queens Park Rangers as their new technical director, just two months after being sacked as manager.

Ramsey was in charge of the Rs for nine months, initially as an interim manager, before losing his job after relegation from the Premier League and a poor start to life back in the Championship.

QPR announced Ramsey's role will see him 'oversee all aspects of coaching and coach education within the academy, and be responsible for developing and implementing player development strategies.

Chris Ramsey stands on Loftus Road touchline while still QPR manager back in September

'He will also oversee the integration between the academy, development squad and first-team, as well as focusing on the monitoring and reporting of players on loan to other clubs.

'Ramsey will also develop and implement the scouting strategy to include the necessary processes and procedures to acquire players, and develop and implement club partnership programmes at both domestic and international level to facilitate greater market accessibility, exchange of best practice, and development/exit opportunities for players.'

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QPR director of football Les Ferdinand, who was key in the appointment of Ramsey's successor as manager, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, added: 'Whilst we were disappointed things didn’t work out with Chris at first-team level earlier in the season, we were determined to retain his services at QPR.

Jimm Floyd Hasselbaink (right) took over from Ramsey as QPR manager last month

'As such, we actually put a clause in his contract which allowed us to retain Chris’s services in a player-development role should things not work out for him as head coach.

'Chris knows academy football inside-out and having put the building blocks in place for a lot of the good restructuring work that’s been done here over the past 11 months, he can come in and make an instant impact in an environment he has helped build.'

QPR are 16th in the Championship, 11 points off the play-offs and just nine clear of relegation.

QPR's players look dejected during their 2-1 defeat by Hull at Loftus Road on New Year's Day